Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years back in Stratford; Abigail Adams, Second First Lady, by Edith Owen; and The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia, by Preston Jones, about a lunatic-fringe group from Texas, may not provide some aesthetic rewards. To take a risk is the regional theater's brand of courage...
...apples. The first comes wrapped in art and myth: Eve took the bite and mankind got its eviction notice from Paradise. The second is baked in its own apocryphal jacket: Isaac Newton got his deep insight into gravity when struck by a falling fruit. Result: a new brand of physics that relocated us even farther from the godhead-and a reverse anthropomorphism that saw the human body as a machine. Today Adam Smith implies the West has an urge to work its way back, past technology, past sin itself...
...trouble putting the idea into more explicit words. But if stated bluntly, the message might go something like this: A. & P.'s three-year WEO ("Where Economy Originates") drive was a disastrous blunder. The chain went all out to undercut competitors' prices at the expense of quality; brand-name goods became scarce on the shelves, and many stores were allowed to become dirty. Result: customers abandoned A. & P. in droves for rival chains...
...generations of Americans, Casey Stengel was an essential part of the national pastime-the canny, clownish manager of New York City's worst and best teams, the brand-new Mets and the old-gold Yankees. Hardly a man is now alive who remembers Casey at the bat. For the record, Stengel was a hitter who had a knack for connecting in the clutch. To use his own phrase, he treated the ball as if he hated it-and he sometimes fielded that...
...nominations. He parlayed an obscure sub-committee chairmanship, that of the Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, into landmark legislation and Six O'Clock News Slots. Bayh's presidential succession amendment of 1967, designed to prevent vacancies in the office of Vice President, instead precipitated the Nixon/Ford/Rockefeller brand of participatory democracy. Bayh also claims credit for steering the 18-year-old vote to passage, as well as the Equal Rights Amendment. And this summer he helped block once again the Buckley anti-abortion amendment...